Autobiographical Comics - Life Writing in Pictures El Refaie ElisabethPaperback
Autobiographical Comics - Life Writing in Pictures El Refaie ElisabethPaperback A fruitful reading of the best North American and European autobiographical comics A troubled childhood in Iran.…
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Autobiographical Comics - Life Writing in Pictures El Refaie ElisabethPaperback
A fruitful reading of the best North American and European autobiographical comics A troubled childhood in Iran. Grieving for a dead child. Living with a disability.
In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie offers a long overdue assessment of the key conventions, formal properties, and narrative patterns of this fascinating genre. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth. The book considers eighty-five works of North American and European provenance, works that cover a broad range of subject matters and employ many different artistic styles.
Drawing on concepts from several disciplinary fields--including semiotics, literary and narrative theory, art history, and psychology--El Refaie shows that the traditions and formal features of comics provide new